Nyigina language
Nyikina (also Nyigina, Njigina) is an Australian Aboriginal language of Western Australia, spoken by the Nyigina people.
Classification
R. M. W. Dixon (2002) regards Nyikina, Warrwa, Yawuru and Jukun as a single language.
Nyikina is placed in the Nyulnyulan family of non-Pama–Nyungan languages.
See also
References
- Capell, A. (1952/1953). "Notes on the Njigina and Warwa tribes, N.W. Australia". Mankind 4: 351–360, 450–496.
- Dixon, R. M. W. (2002). Australian Languages: Their Nature and Development. Cambridge University Press. http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521473780.
- Muecke, Stephen (2004). "A Chance to Hear a Nyigina Song". In Ryan, J.. Imagining Australia: Literature and Culture in the New New World. Wallace-Crabbe, C. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Committee on Australian Studies. pp. 123–135. ISBN 978-0-674-01573-9. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/RYAIMA.html.
- Stokes, B. (1982). A description of Nyigina, a language of the West Kimberley, Western Australia. PhD dissertation. Australian National University.
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